WINTER WEATHER: Large vehicles banned from Thruway between Syracuse and New York City, several other NY highways

ALBANY, N.Y. >> Because of today’s winter storm, tractor-trailers, tandem trailers, buses, box trucks and other high-profile vehicles have been banned from using the New York Thruway between Exit 36 (Syracuse) and New York City, according to the state Thruway Authority.

The ban includes the highway’s Berkshire Spur.

The same ban is in effect for:

• All of Interstate 84, between the New York-Pennsylvania and New York-Connecticut borders,